Quote Originally Posted by Beanflicker View Post
Tony Tucker was a beast, he had guys relinquishing titles so they wouldn't have to fight him.

He broke his hand a few days before the Tyson fight and then shattered it early in the fight, shit happens in boxing, Tyson was a beast who probably would have beaten him anyway, but Tucker was a bad motherfucker. Michael Spinks ducked him hard.
Tucker was the lifelong beneficiary of Don King low balling people and generous rankings late on. The guy had big natural skill and ability for sure, but I really doubt Spinks and Foreman were afraid of the man. Asking a lineal champ to settle on a fraction when he was able to make 7,8 times that is a non starter and bad business, King at his calculated finest with all roads to Tyson either way.